The aim of this study is to determine the parent and educator perception
factors of building resilience to stress in children early childhood, while his problem
is to examine the parent and educator perception factors of building resilience to
stress in children from early childhood. There were made two surveys. The study
included 67 teachers and 33 parents of children from 6 to 7 years of age. The sample
of parents included parents of the Varazdin county, and a sample of educators
consisted of teachers from various parts of Croatian (filling in on - line surveys).
The results of this research show that teachers generally are aware of the individual
components of resistance, but not to the extent that is required to develop and
encourage maximum resistance and its core components, such as the establishment
and maintenance of healthy relationships and strengthen personal power, a
particularly positive and optimistic thinking. The results also showed that teachers
largely believe that every situation cannot be seen from the positive side, there is still
a large number of those who believe that the innate self-confidence and that it is
difficult to obtain, so they are their weak points.
The results have found that parents pay little attention to communication
competencies. Also, some respondents report that their child's educator does not
constitute a good enough communication model. While most believe that the opinion
of children is much less important than thinking adult, though the vast majority of
parents think that children should be obedient and subordinate to adults, which is
consistent with other research-based parental expectations of the child. Parents allow
children autonomy in everyday small things (eg. What to wear to kindergarten), but
when it comes to larger situations, such as, moving, they do not ask the child for his
opinion. Results also show that a large number of children of parents surveyed
experienced some form of major stress (death, illness, bullying).
The biggest drawback of the research is a small sample of educators and parents, as
well as some parts of the survey which would be the next research should further
improve.